JimCM

By your avatar, I assume you agree with all the illegal settlements in the West Bank, do you?

Scroll through certain corners of the internet and you’ll find no shortage of self-styled “defenders of Britain” sounding the alarm about Muslim immigrants. The tone is familiar: the country is under threat, its identity is being erased, and only the loudest voices on social media are brave enough to tell the truth. But if this sounds new, it shouldn’t. Britain has lived through this kind of moral panic before. Four hundred years ago, the supposed threat came from Catholics. In the aftermath of the Reformation, English Protestants convinced themselves that Catholics were a shadowy internal enemy—agents of foreign powers, plotting to overturn the nation from within. Political tensions and a handful of real conspiracies gave fuel to a fear far larger than the facts, and pamphlets of the time dripped with righteous certainty that the country was on the brink. Today, the pamphlets have been replaced by memes, but the pattern is strikingly similar. Islamophobic corners of social media frame Muslim immigrants not as ordinary people building lives here, but as part of a coordinated “invasion”. The claims are just as dramatic, and just as thinly supported. The focus is not on lived reality but on the thrill of outrage, amplified by algorithms and tribalism. What both eras show is that Britain’s greatest religious panics have rarely been about theology. They have been about social change, uncertainty, and the fear of losing control. When people feel destabilised—by war, economic hardship, or simply rapid change—they look for someone to blame. In the 17th century, it was Catholics. Today, it is often Muslims. The target shifts; the anxiety remains. And yet history also shows something else: these panics pass. Over time, British Catholics became part of the fabric of national life. The same, quietly and steadily, is happening with Britain’s Muslim communities. People work together, live alongside one another, raise families, and share neighbourhoods. The everyday reality of coexistence always outlives the noise of those who insist that the sky is falling. Panic has a short lifespan. Society does not. And each time Britain survives a wave of fear, it learns again what should be obvious: that ordinary people, whatever their faith, are rarely the threat they are made out to be.

Same in Asia. Not disagreeing. Would you prefer Thailand to have stricter immigration?

Didn't you drink when you were 15? Me and my mates were going to pubs then.

Says the immigrant to Thailand.

Time the UK refused asylum seekers.

Here's Tommy Robinson again.

On what basis do you call Isla as m the world's most offensive religion? Strange generalisation about 25% of the entire world.

YES, one more. Iceland. We need all countries to pull out to show Israel they can't continue to ignore international law by changing illegal settlements in the West Bank and continued ethnic cleansing and killing of children in Gaza. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/dec/10/iceland-becomes-fifth-country-to-boycott-eurovison-2026-over-israel

Good on anyone who refused or paid or faked illness to not join the US army during the Vietnam war. The US had absolutely no reason to kill all those people. I'd have refused to join the British army if there had been conscription during the Iraq unjust wars.

Says who?

You've no idea about my circumstances. One of my kids studies in the UK, paying £14,000 a year as a foreign student,despite being British, but that's another story. I'm very careful about tax avoidance, or r as there my accountant, who happens to be my daughter, is.

I can send it to my children at university too.

I always file one month late, as it's quieter. Was 100 baht fine, now 200.

It's 20 million baht per year.

Not the guy from integrity legal?

Paying tax doesn't make you Thai 😂

Unbelievable, this is daylight robbery. If you want to do something totally unnecessary just go yourself to RD and it's free.

He can get a WP, even own a company as long as the Thais are giving the advice. He's blatantly giving advice here, and it's not accurate.

Exactly. Damn the USA and the billionaire Israel lobby for allowing this to happen. Miriam Adelson controls Trump, after giving him $400 million. Why is this Israeli American allowed to get what she wants, like the US embassy in Jerusalem and now the vetoing of all UN actions against Israel?

As long as foreigner has CPA Thai certification. The foreigner in this video cannot give Thai tax advice legally.

There's a lot of money to be made from naive, scared expats.

Who said this, I bet it wasn't the RD.

If Carl Turner is a a foreigner, it's illegal for him to give tax advice in Thailand unless he holds a CPA license, which he doesn't.